This much I know: Alice Taylor, writer

My advice to any would-be writer is to simply stop thinking about it and do it.

I’m not a disciplined writer. I’m a disaster really. I go through huge spasms of enthusiasm where I will write for hours until I’m exhausted and then I won’t do anything for months. But I’m like that about the housework too.

I used to be surrounded by people day-in, day-out. We ran a shop and post office and then a guest house. Now I live on my own.